Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms & Janacek

Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012

Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

The Brahms Symphony in Jansons's hands is certainly an idyll, darker passages come and go without disturbing the orchestra's mellifluous warmth or Jansons's exquisite phrasings...Could more drama,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2013
Catalogue No: 108080
Label: Arthaus Musik
Series: Mariss Jansons Conducts...

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mariss Jansons

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass

Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass)
with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mariss Jansons

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A “star event” wrote The Guardian about the performance of Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons. Recalling that this orchestra is now “among the leading ensembles in the world,” The Guardian asserted that “their style is generous, warm and big-hearted, their relationship with Jansons one of mutual adoration.” In 1926 Leoš Janáček wrote his contribution to liturgical settings in a language last spoken about a thousand years ago. With the Glagolitic Mass he wanted to emphasize the common bonds between the Slavic nations by writing the text in Old Church Slavonic, which used an alphabet devised by Saints Cyril and Methodius called “Glagolitic”. In this “blistering performance” (The Guardian) filmed at the Lucerne Easter Festival 2012, the Bavarian Radio Chorus complemented the instrumental ensemble of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons to “give a compelling reading with an enormous breadth of dynamics and an impressive presence, and with the Slovak-Russian quartet guaranteeing idiomatic soli” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.0, dts-HD Master Audio 5.0

Picture Format: 16:9, 1080i High Definition

Format: DVD 9 / NTSC

Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR (Glagolitic Mass)

Running Time: 88 mins

FSK: 0

Region Code: 0

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November 2013

The Brahms Symphony in Jansons's hands is certainly an idyll, darker passages come and go without disturbing the orchestra's mellifluous warmth or Jansons's exquisite phrasings...Could more drama, more glue, have been applied? Yes; as it could in the Janacek. But in a hard world and a boring auditorium, affectionate music-making shouldn't be snubbed

26th September 2013

Jansons and his players are steeped in the music of Brahms...Jansons’s endearing reading radiates an airy freshness and quiet contentment...Michael Beyer, the video director, deploys a splendid, crisp colour palette..
All round these are winning performances.

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